As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
More aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture
More aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture, ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) Opinion 3, February 2002
The UK Chancellor has proposed doubling aid by creating an International Financing Facility. Good news – and we should use the opportunity to reconsider the international architecture for delivering aid. In fact, it would be remiss to double aid without considering the apparatus for delivering such large amounts of money. Efficiency and effectiveness are key considerations, but there are also fundamental principles at stake, to do with the accountability of aid organisations and the quality of the partnership between rich and poor nations. These generate some big questions, about the future of the World Bank, the role of the UN, and, for European donors, improving the quality of aid from the European Union................ (see link in title for full article)